Re: FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

2020-01-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
here, some ideas: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243395 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243395> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243397 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243397> Stefan Parvu spa...@kro

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

2020-01-14 Thread Stefan Parvu
> The first step should be to report those errors, and figure out > whether someone has interest in getting libvirt working on FreeBSD/Xen > and maintaining it in a sane state. If there's no interest we should > drop the Xen option from the libvirt port to not give users false > expectations.

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

2020-01-12 Thread Stefan Parvu
> > Okay, so there are some options. Will have a look on virt-manager and cbsd. libvirtd, virt-manager: no go. * I had to rebuild libvirtd with Xen support * got occasional core dumps from libvirtd * virt-manager is useless, cannot be used to create a simple guests from debian to centos

Re: bridge0 settings for VMs

2020-01-11 Thread Stefan Parvu
> Just remove SYNCDHCP Cheers. That was working fine. Stefan ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Xen performance on FreeBSD vs Linux

2020-01-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, How Xen hypervisor compares in terms of performance (guest) on FreeBSD vs Linux , using ZFS or UFS ? Are there any benchmarks or tests regarding this ? Thanks Stefan Parvu spa...@kronometrix.org ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https

Re: FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

2020-01-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
Cheers, Okay, so there are some options. Will have a look on virt-manager and cbsd. thanks a lot for pointers Stefan Parvu spa...@kronometrix.org ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen

FreeBSD 12.1 hypervisor management tools

2020-01-04 Thread Stefan Parvu
/FreeBSD. Thanks, Stefan Parvu spa...@kronometrix.org ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
Thank you for help and tips. I need to find another server, newer and try Xen or bhyve. Most likely we will decommission this box or install debian 9 or 10/kvm for it. Lets see. Stefan > On 16. Oct 2019, at 19.29, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 07:10:44PM +030

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> >> Also, IIRC X58 had some interrupt remapping issues, can you try to >> boot with iommu=no-intremap? (without any other iommu options) > here my /boot/loader.conf root@earth:~ # cat /boot/loader.conf kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0" zfs_load="YES"

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> Also, IIRC X58 had some interrupt remapping issues, can you try to > boot with iommu=no-intremap? (without any other iommu options) Let me try quickly that. No serial it is too complicated for this machine. If we can make this running do you think FreeBSD Xen Dom0 will ever support HVM linux

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> # acpidump -t|grep DMAR > DMAR: Length=180, Revision=1, Checksum=195, > OEMID=A M I, OEM Table ID=OEMDMAR, OEM Revision=0x1, > root@earth:~ # acpidump -t | grep DMAR DMAR: Length=288, Revision=1, Checksum=93, OEMID=AMI, OEM Table ID=OEMDMAR, OEM Revision=0x1, this is it.

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> When booting plain FreeBSD, can you try the following? > > # acpidump -t|grep DMAR > DMAR: Length=180, Revision=1, Checksum=195, > OEMID=A M I, OEM Table ID=OEMDMAR, OEM Revision=0x1, > > If you don't get output it means there's no DMAR ACPI table, and thus > no VT-d support (at least

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
thank you guys for tips. > Are you sure it's VT-d and not VT-x what you have enabled in the BIOS? Yes, I think the ASUS BIOS had listed VT-d. But will double check tonight. But it might be that the CPU does not support VT-d. Thats very true. Hmmm. Is there any point even to update the CPU on

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> > Your box doesn't seem to have an iommu (aka vt-d for Intel). In BIOS I do have VT-D Enabled option. Would that be broken or not working ? I think I have used Xen a bit older version on Debian some time back if Im not wrong, on the same hdw. >> But you need all boot log. I will try your

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> If your box doesn't have a serial header, you can add noreboot to > xen_cmdline and paste a photo of the screen with the panic message, > it's not great but at least we would get an idea of what's wrong. > Im not sure I can setup a serial console on this wkst. Will check. The last thing I

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-16 Thread Stefan Parvu
> Can you please provide the full boot log? I'm afraid that I'm not able > to provide any suggestions without knowing what went wrong. In BIOS everything regarding virtualization is turned ON. How can I provide the full boot log if my machine is rebooting itself … and have no access to the

Re: cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-15 Thread Stefan Parvu
> > Does it happen in Xen or in FreeBSD dom0 kernel? Xen. Here: http://www.kronometrix.org/bugs/freebsd_xen.jpg > I have Xeon E3-1234 but I run 11.2-STABLE with xen-kernel-4.7.2_9 for a very > long time already. > I also have: > > hw.pci.mcfg=0 > machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=0 Should I add

cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 Xen 4.12.1 on Intel Core i7 CPU 930

2019-10-15 Thread Stefan Parvu
="dom0_mem=2048M dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0=pvh console=com1,vga com1=115200,8n1 guest_loglvl=all loglvl=all iommu=debug,force” Any ideas what I could try ? Thank you Stefan Parvu spa...@kronometrix.org ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mai